Well it does feel like this cycle, more and more of the good folks are winning and showing what government can do for people. Here’s to hoping that they keep winning and take over.

"Get money out of politics" is only going to increase in popularity until there's some action. My concern is that a faux-populist democrat will become president, pass some empty reforms, declare victory, and then we'll be back here again in 15-20 years, when our democracy might be even weaker. OR that Republicans will end democracy before anything can happen.

Unpopular opinion: AOC, Bernie and Mamdani are at this point preventing a revolution the US so badly needs. As long as there’s a possible progressive win of the Democratic Party, people will live in the delusion that this regime can be uninstalled via democratic processes.

Nearly the entire system is rotten, bar a few who seem to still be holding on to do good for the people (AOC, Bernie, Mamdani, El-Sayed, Tallarico, etc).

who seem to still be holding on to do good but aren't actually much as they keep using and endorsing the private social network of a nazi where this post is also taken from. Downvote X reposts and don't share them or the rotten system it's on you too.

nonsense the dems are hard at work getting power back in the midterms

it is you with your both side crap that is feeding the apathy that might save this admninistration in november

same as the last election. useless commie nonsense. the DSA is even worse with their unelectable policies

El-Sayed has a nasty little clinger-on he needs to get rid of, but then he'll be set.

AOC? Nah, she's been made to heel to Nancy's and Hakeem's wishes. Buckled at pretty much the first opportunity too. Still says some nice things, but she's useless as a challenge to the status quo. Made a useful tool of the establishment.

Bernie? Well, he tucked tail and quit fighting after the party establishment colluded and sabotaged his campaigns. 2020 was especially egregious, and he still agreed to back Biden. Again, says the right things at times, but far less a real challenge to the status quo now than he ever was.

The others you mentioned? Mamdani can be a good pragmatic example, wish him the best, but he's limited to the Senate at the federal level if he aspires to higher office. El-Sayed, too early to tell. Talarico, I assume you mean? Tough row to hoe for a few months, probably a long shot, but he's been a democrat for years. That party is really irredeemable.

I wish I knew the real solution to this electoral mess. I keep hoping for a really hard charging third party challenge that can bridge the divide. May wait my entire life at this point.

I tried to reason with him that it matters. Even if they don’t have the votes to convict. Impeach him once a week of you have to. Persecute the motherfucker!

100% agree. Performative it may be, but doing it every single time he does something to warrant it, which is daily at this point, at least sends a message that this shit is unacceptable. Doing nothing is tacitly agreeing with it. It's baffling.

would play into persecution rhetoric for Trump.

The whole fucking point of him doing the persecution rhetoric is to stop people attacking him, and they've played right into his hands.

And look at the vote for releasing the Epstein files! Obviously, they 'didn't have the votes' for that, either ... but once they tried, even a bunch of Republicans were on board.

At least fucking try.

Persecute Prosecute the motherfucker!

FTFY. It's only "persecute" if it's unjust.

It’s why democrats lose as much as they do, they don’t seize opportunities

This kind of Dem is such a fucking pussy. Literally more worried about offending constiutents who would never vote for them in the first place.

So that’s where we are now. The only people with the political power to oust a tyrant have thrown in the towel.

If only we lived in a democracy and could give people power with our vote...

I'd say it's entirely dems fault as they were dropping the ball consistently since years. Trump should've been an easy opponent but he ended up as president second time

Yes! IMO the 'evil geniuses' had no effect whatsoever. Trump just wins by default when the Democrats run unpopular candidates.

I've been saying this for almost ten years now. Trump is not a popular candidate and never has been. In '16 he got fewer votes than Romney did in '12. If everyone who voted for Obama had voted for Clinton, Trump never would have won. The same is true with '20 vs. '24: if everyone who voted for Biden had voted for Harris, Trump never would have won the second time.

I also don't think Biden was ever that popular; I think any of the Democratic candidates would have won in 2020. I told anyone who would listen at the time, "Biden is a bad choice, some shit could heat up in Israel, and he's very out of touch with the Democratic base on that issue, and it could prevent him from getting re-elected." I will say, I didn't think Trump would get re-elected after J6, I thought it would be some other Republican. But, it also felt like the Democrats also never really went after Trump for what he did on J6 so.

Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is I agree and I'm glad to hear other people say it. The Democrats are too willing to compromise with Republicans who never compromise with them, and it keeps losing them elections. So even though Americans as we actually exist are reasonably progressive on most issues (legalizing weed and having universal healthcare poll higher than any sitting politician, there are about 1.5x as many registered Dems as Reps in this country, etc), we're stuck with an extremely regressive government. That's the context that leads to progressives like Mamdani winning in "upset" victories and the Democratic leadership is all surprised.

Yeah. There was this drunk driver that hit a kid. Stupid parents. It's just the result of incompetence of the parenting party than a result of drunk driving.

but but but.... the lesser of two evilss!!

hakeeem , schumer are wealthy asf from various industries that donated to him.

During the general election: Easy there friend, I agree with you but now is not the time. Do party building during midterms.

During midterms: Oh this is the time for a united front. Simply promote third parties between elections.

Between elections: You're taking momentum away from smaller local challengers right now.

The ratchet effect exists because leftists would rather bitch every general election and allow Republicans to be elected, while simultaneously not participating in the primaries.

The fascists knew the primaries were the secret, and their voters are generally loyal in November. Every member of the GOP that opposes Trump is removed in the primaries, and the party moves further right.

In what ways has the united states shifted right over the last 20 years? Tbh I've never understood this narrative. To me it's very very obvious that the united states has shifted left steadily for my whole life. Short term there have been rightward shifts, but the overall trend is definitely left.

With a high degree of overlap to the Epstein client list.

It's not a two-party system. It's a one-party system disguised as a two-party system.

It's not the Democrats vs the Republicans

It's the oligarchs vs the people.

The democratic party is overflowing with oligarch sychophants.

Congress is full of people who will talk about progressive points, then vote the other way.

Almost? Politics isn't a sporting event. Seeing them turn everything into black or white is so close minded. Most things have many shades of grey. We should have that many candidates to choose from.

It's a consequence of our voting system.

If two parties that have similar ideals (call it A1 and A2) enter an election with another opposing party (call it B1), benefits the opponent, because people who agree with either A1 or A2 can only vote for one.

You can end up in a position where 30% of people vote for A1, 30% for A2, and 40% for B1. Because A1 and A2 were so similar, neither of them can achieve plurality, despite their message itself being more popular, and the race goes to B1.

Btw, back in 2000, the Green party got enough votes in Florida that, had they instead voted for Gore, the whole "chad" debacle would've been a non-issue. I guess Gore wasn't environmentalist enough for them. Bush/Cheney ended up winning...and they certainly were not environmentalist in the least.

I credit this for being the historical turning point where everything really started going to shit. Bush v Gore and the chads. And thus, to this day, I'm a tree-hugging hippy who will gladly say: fuck the green party.

...To take it a step further, in order to attract centrist or opponent voters, the party has to be moderate/centrist. It cannot be exceedingly progressive, or it will lose its more moderate members.

In essence, the voting system causes two party systems, and the "big tent" party causes the big tent to suck and always move opposite the driection it really should.

OR a uniparty/coalition. its 2 right wing parties, 1less than the other joining forces. the less right wing from time to time is allowed to win, throw in some "progress" but not enough to change things dramatically. Also they depend on the right wing for survival as much as the alt-right depend on the dems for survival. its a codependancy.

So long as any parties funding is coming from corporations, and citizens united stands... Not much will be done in terms of bettering society for the working class.

An easy way to look at it is the working class if above the line, the people who own the parties rely on what's below the line.

Those people have proven over and over they believe in making massive cuts to make the numbers below the line go up, even if they were making profit and churning out a good product. Making a worse product, and hurting those who work for you company doesn't matter, so long as number go up.

Until the genocide, everyone served Israel.

I stand by my observation Israel is not a Jewish nation, it's a owner-class nation.

The Dems exist to prevent the rightward slide from ever shifting back. That is why they fight harder against progressives than Republicans.

Exactly. They are being quiet because they are being told to do so.

They have to oppose a regime that has nearly 100% of major media at least begrudgingly supporting if not enthusiastically.

This is the biggest problem. And it's not just legacy media, but also modern media. Zuck, Musk, and fucking Spez control basically all the social media that isn't the fediverse. All fascists or fascist-wannabes.

It's always funny to see DSA types coopt Trump language.

The mayor of a town was arrested? Who fucking cares?

Do you have any fucking idea how large this country is and how many people call themselves "Democrat".

Shit like this doesn't work when people actually live in the place you're talking about.

Try harder.

Oh, they were losing while Obama was president too. A Supreme Court Justice and the Heritage Foundation's health insurance reforms (aka Obamacare/ACA) come to mind.

Last I checked there were about 50% more registered Democrats than registered Republicans in the USA. Given those kind of numbers, it's actually impressive that the Republicans ever win any elections at all; and it takes a lot of both Democratic incompetence and Republican gerrymandering.

it was a fluke for obama to win, because of bad bush screwed up the economy.

Yeah ikr.

Trump is depriving people from affordable healthcare, living environments, food storage, equal rights, sterile air quality .etc, and he's pretty much the ambassador of the many despicably graphic human trafficking ring formed by Epstein that his posse is going out of their way to shun from the public eye.

But oh no! Zohran is chilling with furries!!!!!!! WHAT A FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!! WORSE THAN A CHILD RAPIST WHO ALSO TARIFFED COUNTRIES DURING WILDFIRES AND BLACKMAIL IRAN AFTER DROPPING COGNITIVE NUKES ON THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!

I suffer heavily from learning difficulties, and even I know Republicans are completely inhuman warmongeries!

Just say you despise Americans and stop pretending to want better for them

Maybe if Biden had written EOs for every goddamned thing we wouldn't be in this mess.

That's the problem. The gop is always in control whether they have a majority or not.

Democratic party with a supermajority: can barely pass a conservative health insurance reform bill with zero repub votes after bargaining themselves out of any actual good parts.

GOP with a one vote majority: mandate of the people; they get everything they want and there's nothing the dems can do to stop it.

do people not understand that they currently aren't in power?

There's not much people understand. But they will 100% confidently talk about anything like they know it all.

If op bothered to post the whole thread you'd see they are doing something but a complicit media doesn't report on any of that.

This kind of propaganda has worked wonders on all the brightest folks here. Doing its job superbly.

and think they can get away with it.

At least until the guillotines come out, they can and are getting away with it.

I haven’t really seen anyone try to run against him. They’ve put people on the same ballots as him, but none of them have run a serious campaign that attempted to connect with voters.

He has never won against a man. I'm not just talking Biden, he's ran for president multiple times.

pretend to tackle actually. its called wet your appetite, or throw the dog a bone. its limited by design, so they dont lose thier political capital in getting elected next election.

Here is the advice of James Carville, a highly respected political consultant for the Democratic party. He recommends that Dems roll over and play dead.

The man is responsible for the Democrat's major shift towards neoliberalism, as well as a key figure in killing all progressive movement in the Dem party. He's even doing it now, saying the people do not want progressive policies like taxing the wealthy or cutting weapon shipments to Isreal.

You can't baby step that. It's time to rip the band-aid and vote for people actually on our side.

they want to go back sucking israel off, and to people stop talking about the epstein files, many other world leaders are in it too.

They literally had public disclosures that this was the plan after Harris lost

I’d love to hear a few realistic and effective suggestions for what you think the party should be doing.

You know for example ditching the private social network owned by a nazi and promote the open and decentralized alternatives that millions of people are already using

The party should be [Redacted by Reddit] every billionaire in the country with their own [Redacted by Reddit].

Hahaha